Student Senate unanimously approved a bill to increase the number of security cameras on Baylor’s campus on Thursday. The bill was introduced by McKinney freshman Senator Jessica Porter at last week’s senate meeting.
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Early in the making of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” visual effects supervisor Stephane Ceretti invited a raccoon named Oreo to spend a few hours in his London office.
Poverty is a global epidemic. According to the most recent World Bank estimates, 17 percent of people in the developing world live on less than $1.25 a day, which adds up to over a billion people.
No, the Secret Knowledge is the truth behind the truth, the real facts behind the facts “they” want you to believe. It unveils the conspiracies beneath the facade suckers mistake for real life. Not incidentally, the Secret Knowledge will always confirm your worst fears.
It’s not that I’m not invested in my thesis. I’m writing about two of my favorite things: women and food. (Food & Feminism, hello?) It’s just that I’m burnt out and tired and this is the home stretch.
No. 7 Baylor softball has jumped out to a 9-0 start – the best record since the 14-0 season start in 2011. However, that spotless record will be put to the test as Baylor hosts No. 2 Oregon tonight at Getterman Stadium to kick off the 2015 Baylor Invitational. This is the first ranked opponent the Bears will face this season, putting a lot of importance on the nationally televised matchup.
The documentary “A Fragile Trust,” which tells the story of a plagiarism scandal in the The New York Times, will be playing at 6 p.m. Tuesday in 101 Marrs McLean Science Building. Macarena Hernández, lecturer in the department of journalism, public relations and new media, is the reporter whose work was plagiarized, and will be present at the showing. A question-and-answer session with Hernández and Dr. Sara Stone, chair of the department of journalism, public relations and new media, will follow the movie. For more information, visit https://www.afragiletrust.com/.
A lecture by Daniel Peppe, assistant professor of geology, called “The Ape in the Trees” will be conducted at 7 p.m. today at the Mayborn Museum. The lecture will cover how scientists use plant and animal fossils and information from rocks to reconstruct the climate and landscape of eastern Africa more than 20 million years ago. Coffee and cookies will be served prior to the lecture at 6:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. Call (254) 710-2511 for more information.
Located in the garden level of Moody Memorial Library, the new TechPoint Video Booth provides Baylor faculty, students and staff with an easy way to shoot basic videos. The booth is available from 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The booth has an HD quality camera, shotgun microphone, studio lights, acoustic panels, a projector and playback monitor. The video booth activates when a USB drive is inserted into the system. It can be reserved for up to three hours per day and nine hours per week. Reservations can be made at www.baylor.edu/lib/techpoint/reserve.
The third annual Battle of the Bands, hosted by the Baylor Student Activities Union Board, will be held 6 p.m. March 26, in the Bill Daniel Student Center Den. Submissions for bands are being accepted. For additional information, contact student_union@baylor.edu.
The McCahill, Hardy v. Kinghorn hearing continued Wednesday, in courtroom 127 of the Law School, as one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, sophomore Elliott Riches, proceeded by calling senior Forrest Davis III to the witness stand.
The Coalition of Black Ambassadors is holding a soiree at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Cashion Academic Center fifth floor banquet room. The attire is semi-formal. There will be live entertainment, a DJ and refreshments. Admission is free with a donation of a school supply, which will help benefit local schools. For additional information, contact Chierra_Williams@baylor.edu.
An explosion devastated a section of a major refinery on Wednesday morning, raining down ash in the area and, experts say, likely helping to increase California gas prices, which have been creeping up in recent weeks.
By Caroline Lindstrom LTVN Broadcast Producer Wacoans Take The Polar Plunge To Raise Funds For The Special Olympics from Baylor Lariat on Vimeo.
The demolition of a state-designated historic home near Baylor may have violated the state’s government code, said Chris Florance, director of communications at the Texas Historical Commission.
Following Dr. William May’s retirement as dean of the School of Music last spring, the music department conducted a thorough search for a replacement and has found its top three candidates.
With midterms approaching, the fitness department has opportunities for students to work off their stress, including a free weights series. After the New Year’s resolution surge of gym attendance, the next peak comes at this time of the semester, said Clint Patterson, coordinator of fitness at the McLane Student Life Center.
Student government is made up of several of moving parts, just like the Lariat. There is a hierarchy. There are workflows. There are policies and people to enforce those policies. Everyone has a job to do.
Long story short, I took the class, got a heck of a lot better at running, and now I actually enjoy the activity. It showed me that I was more than capable of training for something and seeing myself improve over time, and it was much more of as stress reliever that I thought it would be.
If you ask any one of my high school classmates, they will probably say that I did everything in high school. It’s true; I was in 18 school activities, including five Academic University Interscholastic League events while still staying in the top 10 percent of my class.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott predicted Wednesday that Texas and 25 other states would keep prevailing against President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration but refused to put a deadline on when National Guard troops will leave the border with Mexico.
The Baylor University Student Court began its hearing of the McCahill, Hardy v. Kinghorn lawsuit Tuesday, in courtroom 127 of the Law School.
At the Lariat, we sit all day long. We consume news while in chairs, hold meetings while in chairs, write and edit stories while in chairs, we talk on the phone while in chairs, design the newspaper while in chairs and tell a bunch of random stories after deadline while in chairs.
After struggling through my financial accounting class, I gained an immense respect for those who choose to make a career out of accounting. I also realized the importance of practicing ethical behavior.
Orange is the new green for Baylor business students and prisoners in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program.
For the first time in the Baylor Mock Trial Team’s 15-year history, two teams are headed to compete at the national level.
St. Louis area authorities planning for a grand jury announcement had proposed stationing Missouri National Guard troops and armored Humvees in a Ferguson neighborhood where Michael Brown had been shot by a policeman, according to records released Tuesday detailing the state’s preparations.
A suicide bomber trying to enter a police complex in eastern Pakistan killed five people Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on the relatively peaceful city of Lahore.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, President Barack Obama compared the recent atrocities committed by the Islamic State to actions of Catholics during the Crusades and Americans through the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. Not many were happy about this analogy.
I was struck when I heard the news of three students being murdered in Chapel Hill, N.C. I read the initial police report and saw the Craig Stephen Hicks’ testimony about how the killing came after an ongoing parking dispute.